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As Dribble is a dying platform (no fresh works or ideas for a long-long-long time), many designers post their works on alternative platforms, such as Instagram (not the best choice, but anyway). And I suppose that whole new generation of designers might use other platforms to share their ideas. Let's collect links on UI inspirational sources that can replace dribbble in future.

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Yeah I'm going to second this "Dribbble is dying? Says who?" response.

Dribbble has been mocked by DN for years and it seems to be doing just as well as ever. The trends in visual design and illustration have little to do with the platform itself, and I don't think it's very reasonable at all to claim there have been no fresh works or ideas. People just beat trends to death and they evolve relatively slowly — but we're in a much better place in visual design and in the work on Dribbble than we were two/three years ago or so.

I see the opposite. It’s become more popular and the work has generally increased in quality. The problem still persists, however, that it’s an echo chamber and much of what’s posted is without substance. Dribbble could easily fix this by adding some feature that allowed you to post your thoughts, story, and process around the final visual design.

Your thoughts and the story of your work should be contained within a ‘Project’, rebounds can be used to show iteration.

The beauty of Dribbble is its ‘design snapshot’ nature (though you do have the tools to show your process and/or development of an idea). If it tried to expand on this (like Behance) they would destroy the appeal and simplicity of the platform.

For me it’s a great platform for visual inspiration and I follow people from multiple disciplines. This really helps the echo chamber problem.

I would rather see a ‘Nike shoe concept UI done for the hell of it’ piece rather than a ‘proved to increase ROI and the product sponsor signed it off’ grey and blue drab UI.

Yes, many Dribbble shots lack substance but it’s design candy, a quick hit for the eyes. If I want something more insightful I would look elsewhere.

Dribbble is what you make of it, much like DN or any other community based website. The popular page, what people consider the 'best' designs, is just watered down nonsense 90% of the time. Fancy neon blob gradient filled unusable UI or debut shots welcoming people to the community, I feel there is very little 'actual' project work but by curating your feed and finding people who do similar work or are in similar situations as yourself is the best way to use the platform.

2 features I'd love to see on Dribbble are 1 - having the ability to block/hide people who do post utter crap and always end up on the popular page because Wowe nice colurz and 2 - having an option to mark uploads as actual project work - not just having folders for them as this doesn't help when searching or filtering

I've found UpLabs to be quite good, I learned of it when someone promoted one of my dribbble shots there (It credits you automatically). You are on to something though, the places I used to use for inspiration seem dated now, pttrns for example.

The title is over the top. Dribbble is still top webdesign resource for most people. Does it have the same level of works as before. Hmm not always, as it's now use mostly by small agencies and software houses to find new clients and in order to achieve that they post a lot of crazy stuff. But then again just don't follow them, follow the designers. There are still so many great people there posting they fantastic works.

Btw. What I use now more often then dribbble is http://www.land-book.com At least you know that those are real projects and you can experience how it works.

People really love shitting on one of the few platforms for designers that isn't a total financial black hole or foothold for big advertising. Take behance for example, that website was good for maybe 5 minutes, until it was overwhelmed with the most pathetic cavalcade of mediocrity that you had ever seen.

Not to mention behance basically became another softcore porn site where so-called "photographers" could display their art, that and every 2-bit blog and vaguely design related site could sell their dog shit floral packs or ripped fonts. In addition to those things, behance quickly became a perfect example of capitalism, works in theory yet totally controlled by the 100 people at the top who maintain all the influence and focus, this due to the millions of half-wit morons that think by commenting "this is fantastic, you should check out my portfolio here :)" will someone get people to go view their 2 bit derived nonsense clogging up the servers.

So i think that dribbble, whilst full of average shite and visual porn, still is the only place where work can at least be slightly curated, invitation-only is the best system we have and it sure beats the hell out of giving any egg roll with a crayon a creative license and medium to share their "work". You may get derivatives and replicas and trends on tap, but how else is any prospective employer going to hire you, no one cares about your amazing design solution if it looks like shit, thats the way of the world, so if people get upset that not every designer is reinventing the wheel, then creativity is not for you. Everything ever made anytime was derived from something else.